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acorn::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fruit |
Examples of acorn
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Several of the jailbirds doing time for identity theft became ACORN supervisors.
From the washingtontimes.com
Hunters and hikers say few autumns in memory rival the acorn production of 2009.
From the post-gazette.com
Across the country, registrars have flagged thousands of acorn forms as suspect.
From the time.com
Black-tailed deer roam the lawns, acorn woodpeckers knockety-knock in the trees.
From the sacbee.com
Obama denied any significant ties to ACORN and mocked McCain for bringing it up.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
On Thursday, two ACORN workers in Baltimore were fired after a similar incident.
From the washingtontimes.com
Over great swathes of the country, last autumn the acorn crop failed completely.
From the guardian.co.uk
And, in a complex process, acorn production affects the density of larval ticks.
From the sciencedaily.com
Instead, he posted a YouTube video criticizing CNN's coverage of the ACORN story.
From the edition.cnn.com
- Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
- The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns are 1u20136u00A0cm long and 0.8u20134u00A0cm broad...
- Acorn Computers was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK. These included the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro and the Acorn Archimedes. ...
- ACORN (acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods) is a geodemographic information system categorising all United Kingdom postcodes into various types based upon census data and other information such as lifestyle surveys. ...
- In marketing, Geodemographic segmentation is a multivariate statistical classification technique for discovering whether the individuals of a population fall into different groups by making quantitative comparisons of multiple characteristics with the assumption that the differences within any ...
- The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Their songs have charted on Canadian campus charts and have been in rotation on CBC Radio 3 and The Verge.
- The Acorn is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Gandhi-King Society. It explores philosophical issues related to non-violence in theory and practice, with a focus on the work of M. K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
- The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule; A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head
- (Acorned) (A'korned) An oak with acorns on it. (Placed on an escutcheon.)
